The EU project HiPowAR was launched at a kick-off meeting at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) in Greifswald. The aim is to develop a groundbreaking technology for the direct conversion of renewable ammonia fuel into electricity.
The INP, the Centre for Fuel Cell Technology (ZBT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) are working together with Politecnico di Milano in Italy, PBS BRNO in the Czech Republic and Ranotor in Sweden to develop a membrane reactor for efficient energy generation from ammonia.
Compared to combustion engines and steam power plants, the new membrane reactor promises higher energy conversion efficiency and is expected to enable a breakthrough in the direct conversion of ammonia, an easily storable, carbon-free hydrogen carrier, into usable energy. The design of the membrane reactor is very similar to that of a fuel cell, but the membrane reactor is somewhat simpler and less expensive than, for example, the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), which can also be used for the direct conversion of ammonia into electricity.
HiPowAR was developed as part of the CAMPFIRE alliance in north-east Germany, which aims to research and develop technologies for the decentralised production of ammonia and its use as a fuel and energy carrier as part of Generation 2.0 hydrogen technologies. The EU research project HiPowAR (Highly Efficient Power Production By Green Ammonia Total Oxidation In A Membrane Reactor) aims to promote the implementation of ammonia as an economical synthetic fuel for emission-free shipping, aviation and heavy-duty applications without CO2 emissions.
This project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research framework programme. (Contract number 951880)
Scientifical contact:
Leibniz-Institut für Plasmaforschung und Technologie e.V.
Dr. Angela Kruth
Tel.: +49(0) 3834 554 3860
angela.kruth@inp-greifswald.de
Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS
Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Kriegel
Tel.: +49(0) 36601 9301 4870
ralf.kriegel@ikts.fraunhofer.de
